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Physical Intelligence Award 01-10-2022 Dong Wook Kim received the Humboldt postdoctoral fellowship from Germany. Dong Wook Kim

Physical Intelligence Award 01-10-2022 Erdost Yildiz has been awarded the EU Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellowship Erdost Yildiz

Physical Intelligence Award 01-10-2022 Mengmeng Sun received the Humboldt postdoctoral fellowship from Germany. Mengmeng Sun

Physical Intelligence Award 01-10-2022 Metin Sitti received the new grant from DFG, Soft Material Robotic Systems (SPP2100) Phase II Project, "Medizinische Miniaturroboter mit weichem Körper in unserem Körper," GZ: SI 2197/5-1. Metin Sitti

Physical Intelligence Award 01-10-2022 Xianqiang Bao received the Humboldt postdoctoral fellowship from Germany. Xianqiang Bao

Physical Intelligence Appointment 01-08-2022 Amirreza Aghakhani became Assistant Professor at the University of Stuttgart Amirreza Aghakhani

Physical Intelligence News 15-07-2022 Bacteria-based biohybrid microrobots on a mission to one day battle cancer Scientists add artificial components to bacteria for better control and an extra therapeutic effect in seeking and destroying tumor cells Birgül Akolpoglu Yunus Alapan Nihal Olcay Dogan Saadet Baltaci Oncay Yasa Gulsen Aybar Tural Metin Sitti

Physical Intelligence Award 07-07-2022 Tianlu Wang is awarded Young Researcher Award at the 11th European Solid Mechanics Conference Tianlu Wang

Physical Intelligence News 07-07-2022 Young Researcher Award at the 11th European Solid Mechanics Conference Tianlu Wang won the Young Researcher Award at the 11th European Solid Mechanics Conference, Galway, Ireland! Tianlu Wang Metin Sitti

Physical Intelligence News 04-07-2022 Professor Xuanhe Zhao has been awarded the prestigious Humboldt Research Award Professor Xuanhe Zhao from the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at MIT, Cambridge, USA, has been awarded the prestigious Humboldt Research Award from the Alexander von Humboldt foundation: Metin Sitti Christoph Keplinger

Physical Intelligence News 23-06-2022 Erdost Yildiz receives Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellowship Erdost Yıldız, a postdoctoral researcher in the Physical Intelligence Department at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems in Stuttgart, has been awarded a Marie Skłodowska-Curie European Postdoctoral Fellowship. The grant will allow him to conduct his postdoctoral research in Germany. Erdost Yildiz Metin Sitti Richard Segar

Physical Intelligence News 12-05-2022 New imaging method makes tiny medical robots visible in the body Microrobots have the potential to revolutionize medicine. Researchers at the Max Planck ETH Centre for Learning Systems have now developed an imaging technique that for the first time recognises cell-sized microrobots individually and at high resolution in a living organism. This is an important step towards precise control of the robots and their clinical translation. Paul Wrede Metin Sitti

Physical Intelligence Appointment 01-05-2022 Erdost Yildiz has been appointed to Global Members Committee of the Association for Research on Vision and Ophthalmology Erdost Yildiz

Physical Intelligence Award 01-05-2022 Tianlu Wang, Hyeong-Joon Joo, Wenqi Hu, Christoph Keplinger, and Metin Sitti received the Best Poster Award in the Gordon Research Conference on Robotics Tianlu Wang Hyeong-Joon Joo Wenqi Hu Christoph M. Keplinger Metin Sitti

Physical Intelligence News 26-04-2022 Microrobot collectives display versatile movement patterns System capable of quick transitions between behaviors Collective behavior and swarm patterns are found everywhere in nature. Robots can also be programmed to act in swarms. Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Cornell University, and Shanghai Jiao Tong University have developed collectives of microrobots, which they can move in every formation they wish. The research project was published in Nature Communications. Gaurav Gardi Wendong Wang Metin Sitti

Physical Intelligence News 29-03-2022 Meng Li selected to join the 71st Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting The postdoctoral researcher in the Physical Intelligence Department at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems in Stuttgart is one of 611 young scientists from across the world who are given the opportunity for a week of scientific exchange with some of the world’s greatest minds. Meng Li Metin Sitti

Physical Intelligence News 28-02-2022 International Pharmaceutical Technology Symposium Scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems have won the “Best Oral Presentation Award” at the 20th International Pharmaceutical Technology Symposium with the research topic “Developing Theragnostic Microrobots for Active Drug Targeting and Hyperthermia Applications”. The theme of the symposium was “Shaping the Future of Pharmaceutics”. Gulsen Aybar Tural Metin Sitti

Physical Intelligence News 03-02-2022 Physical Intelligence Department to cooperate with the Max Planck Queensland Center Scientists participating in the research cooperation will explore extracellular matrices and their importance for medicine, ecology, and technology Extracellular matrices are found in almost all living things and carry out various functions that could also become medically, ecologically, and technically relevant. However, relatively little research has been done on them. The scientists who joined forces in the Max Planck Queensland Center (MPQC) for the Materials Science of Extracellular Matrices at the beginning of 2022 want to change that. Extracellular matrices are not animate but can nevertheless provide cells with support, respond to changing environmental conditions, and store information that stimulates or inhibits cell growth. In various projects, different teams of the MPQC will investigate how the composition and order of these pillars of life enable their diverse functions. Metin Sitti

Physical Intelligence 01-02-2022 Gulsen Aybar Tural and Metin Sitti received the Best Oral Presentation Award in the 20th International Pharmaceutical Technology Symposium Gulsen Aybar Tural Metin Sitti

Physical Intelligence News 01-02-2022 On the spot drug delivery with light-controlled organic microswimmers Scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems and the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research develop organic microparticles that can steer through biological fluids and dissolved blood in unprecedented ways. Even in very salty liquids, the microswimmers can be propelled forward at high speed by visible light, either individually or as a swarm. Additionally, they are partially biocompatible and can take up and release cargo on demand. The material properties are so ideal they could pave the way toward designing semi-autonomous microrobots applied in biomedicine. Varun Sridhar Filip Podjaski Metin Sitti Bettina Lotsch

Physical Intelligence Award 01-01-2022 Metin Sitti was elected as the Highly Cited Researcher by Clarivate. Metin Sitti

Physical Intelligence News 14-12-2021 Machine learning deployed to fast-track industrial optimization process Joint research project between science and industry An interdisciplinary team of researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research, the Technical University of Munich, and Robert Bosch GmbH deploy Bayesian Machine Learning methods to fast-track the optimization process of coating copper used in microchips. By doing so, the optimization process can be speeded up fifteenfold compared to taking a conventional optimization approach. Gül Dogan Sinan Ozgun Demir Cem Balda Dayan Umut Sanli Utku Culha Metin Sitti Gisela Schütz Kahraman Keskinbora

Physical Intelligence Appointment 01-12-2021 Hakan Ceylan was appointed Assistant Professor at Mayo Clinic Hakan Ceylan

Physical Intelligence News 09-11-2021 Junghwan Byun receives Humboldt Postdoctoral Research Fellowship The scientist working in the Physical Intelligence Department at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems in Stuttgart will be supported by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation for two years to continue his soft robotic research in Germany. Junghwan Byun

Physical Intelligence Award 17-10-2021 15 journal articles of our group were selected as the Highly Cited Papers in Web of Science.

Physical Intelligence News 07-07-2021 Roboter minimalinvasiv Attached is the article in c’t magazine

Physical Intelligence News 06-07-2021 Kirigami Metastructures: Liquid-Crystal-Elastomer-Actuated Reconfigurable Microscale Kirigami Metastructures (Adv. Mater. 25/2021) Achieving wireless miniaturized reconfigurable metastructures remains a challenge due to the difficult nature of the fabrication and actuation processes at the micrometer scale. In article number <a href="https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/15214095/2021/33/25">2008605 </a>, Metin Sitti and co-workers develop an actuation platform for thermally reconfiguring micro-metasurfaces by using uniaxially aligned liquid crystal elastomers, which serve as efficient artificial muscles to provide energy for actuation of the microscale kirigami metastructures. Mingchao Zhang Hamed Shahsavan Yubing Guo Abdon Pena-Francesch Metin Sitti

Physical Intelligence News 21-06-2021 Savas Tasoglu receives Humboldt Research Fellowship for experienced researchers A new guest scientist joined the Physical Intelligence Department at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems in Stuttgart with the support of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation for twelve months to continue his microfluidics and biomaterials research in Germany. Savas Tasoglu Metin Sitti

Physical Intelligence News 01-06-2021 Wei Feng receives Humboldt Postdoctoral Research Fellowship The scientist working in the Physical Intelligence Department at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems in Stuttgart will be supported by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation for two years to continue his soft robotic research in Germany. Wei Feng Metin Sitti

Physical Intelligence News 29-04-2021 A modular building platform for the most ingenious of robots Playground of new possibilities arises in constructing miniature soft-bodied machines A team of scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems (MPI-IS) have developed a system with which they can fabricate miniature robots building block by building block, which function exactly as required. Jiachen Zhang Ziyu Ren Wenqi Hu Ren Hao Soon Immihan Ceren Yasa Zemin Liu Metin Sitti

Physical Intelligence News 19-04-2021 MPI-IS participates in the Max Planck-University of Toronto Centre for Neural Science and Technology Metin Sitti to cooperate with neurosurgeons to use his miniature robots as new tools in neurological diseases Better therapies for diseases such as dementia or Parkinson's, as well as more powerful computers and new artificial intelligence technologies – these are the goals scientists will pursue at the Max Planck-University of Toronto-Centre for Neural Science and Technolgy. The center was officially inaugurated on April 14, 2021, in a virtual event with many prominent guests. Metin Sitti, Director of the Physical Intelligence Department at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, also attended. Metin Sitti

Physical Intelligence News 16-03-2021 Metin Sitti and his team finalists for the 2020 Cozzarelli Prize The highly prestigious annual Cozzarelli Prize recognizes outstanding contributions to the scientific disciplines represented by the National Academy of Sciences (NAS). Winners and finalists are chosen among articles that appeared in the journal last year in the six broadly defined classes under which the NAS is organized. Additionally, the Editorial Board has recognized six papers – one in each class – as finalists for the 2020 Cozzarelli Prize. Metin Sitti Hamed Shahsavan Amirreza Aghakhani Yubing Guo Zoey Davidson

Physical Intelligence News 08-03-2021 Jaekang Kim receives Humboldt Postdoctoral Research Fellowship The scientist working in the Physical Intelligence Department at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems in Stuttgart will be supported by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation for two years to continue his bio-inspired adhesive research in Germany Jaekang Kim Metin Sitti

Physical Intelligence Appointment 01-03-2021 Donghoon Son was appointed Assistant Professor at the Pusan National University

Physical Intelligence Appointment 01-03-2021 Sungwoo Chun will become Assistant Professor at Korea University

Physical Intelligence News 24-02-2021 Shuaizhong Zhang receives Humboldt Postdoctoral Research Fellowship The scientist working in the Physical Intelligence Department at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems in Stuttgart will be supported by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation for two years to continue his soft robotic research in Germany. Shuaizhong Zhang Metin Sitti

Physical Intelligence News 18-01-2021 Swimming soft millirobots to improve water quality monitoring in precision agriculture SOMIRO project kicks off Metin Sitti

Physical Intelligence News 14-01-2021 Scientists remotely stimulate neurons in the brains of mice This research could one day help limit the symptoms of Parkinson disease Devices that electrically modulate parts of the brain are seen as breakthroughs in the management of neurological disorders such as Parkinson's disease. However, such devices require major surgery and expose a patient to the risk of hemorrhage or infection. Scientists have now created remotely powered nanoparticles that could one day become a less invasive method to modulate neurons in the brain. The researchers injected the tiny nanoelectrodes into mice and showed how they wirelessly transmit electrical signals to the brain, just like a deep brain stimulator would, after exposing the mice to an external magnetic field. Kristen Kozielski Hunter Gilbert Yan Yu Onder Erin Metin Sitti

Physical Intelligence Award 01-01-2021 Donghoon Son and Sungwoo Chun joined Pusan National University and Korea University, respectively as an assistant professor in S. Korea.

Physical Intelligence Award 01-01-2021 Hakan Ceylan selected as a Young Academy Member by Turkish Science Academy, 2021.

Physical Intelligence Award 01-01-2021 Jaekang Kim, Aniket Pal, Zhen Yin, Wei Feng, Yingdan Wu, and Mingchao Zhang received the Humboldt postdoctoral fellowship.

Physical Intelligence Award 01-01-2021 Jie Han, Chong Hong, Yingbo Yan, Fan Wang, Shuqi Wang, and Xianglong Lyu received the CSC PhD fellowship.

Physical Intelligence Award 01-01-2021 Saadet Fatma Baltaci-Demir and Siyeon Jang received the DAAD PhD fellowship.

Physical Intelligence Award 01-01-2021 Savas Tasoglu received the Humboldt fellowship for experienced researchers.

Physical Intelligence Award 01-01-2021 Utku Culha and Kristen Kozielski joined Technical University of Munich as a chief scientist and assistant professor, respectively.

Physical Intelligence Award 01-01-2021 Wei Feng received the Best Paper Award in Bonic Robotics at the International Workshop on Bionic Engineering.

Physical Intelligence Award 01-01-2021 Yichao Tang received the 1000 Young Talents Award in China and joined Tongji University as a full professor.

Physical Intelligence Appointment 01-01-2021 Abdon Pena-Francesch becomes Assistant Professor at the University of Michigan

Physical Intelligence Appointment 01-01-2021 Vimal Kishore will join Banaras Hindu University

Physical Intelligence Award 01-01-2021 Hakan Ceylan and Xiaoguang Dong will join Mayo Clinic and Vanderbildt University, respectively, and Abdon Pena-Francesch joined University of Michigan, Ann Harbour as an assistant professor in USA.